Committee - Professional Development
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Mission

 The mission of the Professional Development Committee is to provide members with new tools and techniques to enhance professional development and to manage their careers through times of ongoing change.


Upcoming Events
spacer Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Time: 5:30 - 7:45 pm
The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling
featuring Sylvia Ann Hewlett
  Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
99 Wood Avenue South
Iselin, NJ
  Before November 15: FWA Members: Price $50, Non-Members: Price $65
  After November 15:  FWA Members: Price $65, Non-Members: Price $80
  RSVP: Monday, November 21, 2011
registration closed
  

Meeting Schedule
Contact Peggy Decker for the more information about the next committee meeting.


Accomplishments/Highlights

x 10th Annual Coaching Summit: Coach Yourself to Success (Jun 2010), Credit Suisse again sponsored the coaching summit. Sessions included:
1) Collaborative Coaching by Molly Sargent on how to give valued1added feedback to enhace relationships with clients and colleagues.
2) You’ve Made it this Far; So Now What? Kathryn Mayer conducted session on managing personal risk and competition to take your career to the next level.
3) Getting Unstuck: Using Tools to Accelerate Your Career conducted by Debra Flanz.
x Women’s Career Journeys (Dec 2009), Attendees – Anne Mulcahy shared her career journey, her choices and what she learned. Attendees took Leadership Derailment Report, a personality-based assessment of performance risk and leadership vulnerabilities. Dr. David Nadler and Virginia McLaughlin assisted attendees in the interpretation of assessment results in order to understand personal derailers. Event sponsored by Mercer.
x Perfect Pitch: Presenting and Selling to Any Audience (Sep 2009), Attendees took Color Q assessment, conducted by Shoya Zichy, to uncover strengths and blind spots of communication styles. In group exercises, practiced meeting the needs of audiences of differing styles. Communication coaches from The TAI Group gave presenters feedback to enhance interviews, sales opportunities and presentations.
x Coach Yourself to Success (Jun 2009)
Coaches: Sonya Hamlin: Do they Listen When you Talk? What You Need to Present You and Your Ideas Today, Patricia King: Psyching Out Your Relationship With Your Boss, Shoya Zichy: Advanced Leadership Strategies: Define and Apply Your Signature Style To More Effectively Influence, Delegate and Coach.
Held at Credit Suisse.
x Your Next Career: Going from Success to Meaning and Fun (Apr 2009)
Panelists Martha Goss, Joan Green and Judith Paul
Guided table discussions with executive coaches Laura Hill, Jeannette Hobson, Gail McDaniel, Maggie Mistal, Meredith Haberfeld and Sheryl Spanier along with financial consultants Jane Hand and Jane Newton. Held at the Community Services Society.
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Taking Control of Your Career the New Mindset of the Emerging Era (Jan 2009)
Speakers:  Andrea Kay, Author, Career Consultant, Syndicated Career Columnist & Speaker and Mona Monaghan-Kelliher, Executive Coach, MMKGroup, NYC. Held at the Bank of New York Mellon.


Acknowledgments

Thank you to our corporate underwriters who provided the venues, support and underwriting: The Bank of New York Mellon and Credit Suisse.

We would like to say a special thank you to our valued committee members for their enthusiasm and dedicated support: Nimisha Baball, Peggy Decke, Marnie Everline, Jennifer Guarino, Yasmine Grossenbacher, Stacey Haggerty, Lara Hinthorn, Lauire Liu, Ilene Moskowitz, Michelle Wong, and Maria Zechhausen.

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  Last updated:
  November 22, 2011